Topic: Hope

It is with the love of Christ taking charge of us, that we can venture into combat with the wrongs of our time without being dragged down by the very same demons that we oppose.

It is not from the halls of power but from humble places that the love which offers wholeness and healing and peace erupts into life.

The baby whose coming is awaited will turn the world upside down (not just the lives of its parents!), and our counter-cultural observance of Advent is a necessary preparation of ourselves for that reality.

Angry prophets who tell us the hard-to-hear truth about ourselves pave the way for a new world to emerge.

The task of being changed into what God calls us to be involves a radical break with the established norms of our world.

The coming of Christ to transform the present world into the Kingdom of God will be earth-shattering, but we easily lose sight of it in our anticipation of “another Christmas”.

The collapse of the institutional church and other social structures will be painful for all of us, but it is not ultimately a threat to mission of Jesus.

What is the legacy you will leave? Live into life and love the way you want it to be, because whatever you choose will live on after you. 

Suffering raises painful unanswerable questions, but Jesus leads us into a life where the sharing of our honest questions is part of shaping a community of healing and hope.

Glimpses of the transformed world that God makes possible transfix us and leave us hungering for more.

The life that Jesus calls us too will not be found and enjoyed until we give up trying to engineer the life we dreamed we were supposed to be living.

Jesus was born to reveal and fulfil what God had long sought to do; set people free to live joyously as God’s children.